That... was not what he was expecting. At all. He flinched, in fact, before he realized that she was hugging him of all things and that he was unnecessarily wound up by the whole subject, and quite possibly the drug upon which the subject was based.
He didn't make eye contact when he turned back around and tugged her closer. "Huh." He didn't know how else to respond to that. To any of it, in fact.